Chapter 5 (1/2)
The bullying nature of Andes giant bear makes its ranking lower than that of mountain pig and mountain ox, but it also makes its hunting more difficult. The probability of success of single bear hunting is far higher than that of collective hunting, but the risk coefficient of the former is far higher than that of the latter.
The bear hunting road is covered with a lot of white bones. In addition, there is a large demand for leather tendons of Andes giant bear. Sean has seen it several times before, but all of them are finished products. They are regarded as life by their owners. Even if they lose their lives without curing the disease, they refuse to sell the heirloom, and they have never been able to start.
With these two pairs of leather bands, Shawn's effective range will be extended to nearly 100 meters in a short time.
Leather bone, between cartilage and hard bone, grows around the bone, especially at joints. It not only has the ability to enhance the bearing capacity of bone, but also has the ability of protection.
Its toughness and resilience are amazing, and its practical value is no worse than the former two. It is a kind of medicine with excellent efficacy. The grinding ingredients and several other mild herbs can be made into a medicine named Zhuanggu powder.
It is effective to cure fracture trauma by taking it orally. Add boiling hot water, boil for one hour, and then take a bath. It is of great help to forge bones.
There are three reasons for the price difference.
For one thing, the yield is relatively large, especially for large-scale hooves. For example, the four horned high back mountain cattle can pick out 20 or 30 kg of this kind of thing.
Although the yield of an individual is not higher than that of the Andes giant bear, the number of the former is only tens of thousands of times that of the latter. It is a very rare thing for Andes mountain people to hunt Andes giant bear, but it is a common practice to hunt four horned high backed mountain cattle. After accumulating, the number is relatively large.
Secondly, the taste of this kind of food is very poor. After being roasted, it tastes like wood scraps. As long as it is not a famine, Andes mountain people seldom use it to satisfy their hunger. Most of them are used to boil glue or feed dogs.
Sean has reservations about this point. It's not so bad that Andes mountain people can't eat it. If it's mixed with seasoning and stewed with beef hooves or ox heads for a day and night, it will melt into a gel, bone is removed, and after cooling, it will be a strong gel meat, which tastes just as good as the jelly.
Even in midsummer, it can be stored for half a month. Naturally, its nutritional value is very high. It is very suitable for teenagers who are growing bones. It is an essential dish on Sean's table.
The reason why Sean likes to call this world the quasi medieval world is that many parts of this world have similarities with the previous European Middle Ages, and the extremely backward medical environment is one of them.
Many people regard disease as the test and will of the gods, preferring to seek God rather than seek medical treatment. In most places, witch doctors do not separate their families. In other words, for priests and witches who regard bloodletting as a routine therapy and animal excrement as a good hemostatic medicine, it is better to choose the insurance of praying for God.
In order not to be killed by those quacks, Sean began to learn how to walk again, and explored the art with his previous medical knowledge, traditional Chinese medicine and alchemy taught by his mother.
As the saying goes, Sean has been in bed for five or six years in his previous life. When conventional medical methods were useless, he had to embark on the road of unconventional treatment.
God asked for it, and Buddha worshipped him. He did not know how many folk prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) claimed to be able to create miracles. In a desperate situation, human beings always burst out with beyond imagination potential. In a short period of five years, he read through all the famous books of traditional Chinese medicine and tried hundreds of folk prescriptions.
Now think about it, how stupid the original behavior, even if the ancient wisdom is no longer strong, it is impossible to predict the medical problems hundreds of years later, or even thousands of years later.
What's more, with the change of environment, people are changing, medicine is also changing. Most of the so-called miracles are blind cats meeting dead mice. It is normal that they can't catch mice. When they die, Sean doesn't catch his own mouse. If he can, he won't be here.
The medical miracle did not appear, but Sean met with a greater miracle, which proved that the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wanted to confirm, but there has been no substantial evidence of the subject - soul.
At least that's how Sean defined the incredible thing that happened to him, but he couldn't tell us what the soul was like.
Because he did not see a white light falling from the sky, nor did he experience the fantastic scene, nor did he see the god Buddha all over the sky. It was like sleeping for a long time, and then opening his eyes again, the earth was turned upside down.
The similarity of the two worlds makes Sean's theoretical knowledge of previous life still have a certain place to use. With various classics and alchemy taught by his mother as the supplement and practice as the main part, over the past ten years, Sean has formed a set of specious medical means of his own. If it is a previous life, Sean dares to take this set of means to practice medicine, and it will not be long before he is arrested Come and throw it in jail and be a homicide doctor.
However, in this world, it is not a simple miracle doctor to describe. Zhuanggu powder is only one of the experimental products combining TCM theory with alchemy.In this world, we don't know whether it is because human beings have not yet begun to abuse various drugs, and their resistance to drugs is poor, or is the medical effect of herbal medicine really much stronger than that of previous generations. Although it can't catch up with the technology of purifying drugs, it can make some people with strong perception easily feel the efficacy.
Most importantly, Sean had ample opportunity to experiment with a variety of formulations and agents.
The so-called traditional Chinese medicine, to a large extent, is experiential. Theoretical knowledge is far less important than experience.